From: Richard Quirk <richard.quirk@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:08:02 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn dcommit always uses my own name
Message-ID: <cac9e4380804151508p688bd7b7o1eb413b4133dad57@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130804151425o6cf7646co541fb7cc85115606@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:

>  However, when I do this, all the commits to svn end up having *my*
>  userid attached, rather than the userid of the git user.  If I do "git
>  log" before "git-svn dcommit", it shows all the right authors, but
>  this information is lost when I dcommit.
>
>  Is there a way to not lose this information?
>

Subversion only remembers the user that made the commit; there's no
way to tell it that someone else wrote the patch and that you just
committed it. However, examining git-svn, there seems to be an
undocumented option. You can do this:

git svn dcommit --use-log-author

That uses the Signed-off-by: field in the commit message to extract
the author information. Of course it won't rescue the author field on
old commits, and you have to have Signed-off-by on any new ones to
gain any benefit.

regards,
Richard